Guillaume Randolphe is a young Haitian man who moves to Ottawa after the 2010 Earthquake which devasted his homeland. In spite of being a penniless refugee claimant, Guy works two jobs and enrolls at Carleton University, where he meets a woman who changes his life. Tall and athletic Tess Van Dijke was born and raised in Durban, South Africa, and eagerly explores life as an international student in the Canadian Capital. Tess finds herself intrigued by the tall, quietly intense young man from the Caribbean. Guillaume and Tess’s mutual fascination soon turns into attraction. They’re from completely different worlds. Tess’s parents in RSA are not okay with their romance, and Guillaume’s got the xenophobic Canadian government breathing down his neck. Against such odds, does their budding romance stand a chance ?